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"Jonathan N's" answers are good, but he forgot one thing. Mountain heights are measured in 4 different ways 1) Elevation above sea level; 2) Vertical Elevation, the height from it's land base to it's summit; 3) Actual height from it's base to summit, Mauna Kea is the highest, but 20,000 feet of that is under water and: 4) the distance from the center of the earth's core to the summit of the mountain.

The Andes Mountains has the distinction of having the highest mountain in category #4. Mount Chimborazo comes in at 20,565 ft above sea level and is Equador's highest peak. It is a dormant volcano. But being that the summit is much closer to the equator than Mt. Everest, and the Earth is wider at the equator than it is at the poles, Mount Chimborazo is the highest mountain when measured from the Earth's core center to it's summit. It comes in at a whopping 20,946,232 feet.

Wow!!!!!

2007-11-21 12:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by chahn11 4 · 0 0

It makes up 3.5% of the earths surface, fourth largest continent, fifth largest in terms of population. Home to the world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela, the largest river (by volume), the Amazon River, the longest mountain range, the Andes, the driest desert, the Atacama Desert, the largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, the highest railroad, Ticlio Peru, the highest capital city, La Paz, Bolivia, the highest commercially navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, and the world's southernmost town, Puerto Toro, Chile.

2007-11-21 05:20:53 · answer #2 · answered by kurules12 2 · 1 0

it has the worlds largest rain forest, the worlds longest mountain range(andes) the worlds highest volcanic lake,(titicaca), and the worlds largest pampas, and too many other features to mention.

2007-11-21 05:17:55 · answer #3 · answered by Loren S 7 · 1 0

a physical dimension? I've always liked the third dimension...you know, "up-down"? that's a good dimension...

2007-11-21 05:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by Adkit 2 · 0 2

Beautiful women.

2007-11-21 05:08:55 · answer #5 · answered by ryan c 5 · 0 2

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